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Joe DDoonnddeelliinnggeerr Photo by Carey Boyum
Khadafy provoked
by American ways
Photo by Carey Boyum
E
Photo by Ca
Above: Discarded black phones were common sights on
campus this week as almost every Augustana phone was
replaced by Honeywell push button phones. Br-r-rin Carol Archer, Augustana's switchboard operator, in the began using her new desktop switchboard Monday. The
new switchboard can sit on top of her older wire plug w model (background) and can perform more functions. Ar- n e cher said she already favors the smaller, more compact
system.
New state law affects teachers
Steve Nelson
staff writer
The South Dakota Public
School system has initiated a
program intended to ensure that
only top quality teachers receive
certification.
After July 1st, any teacher
applying for South Dakota cer-tification
must first undergo a
year of "associate instructor"
status. This would not apply to
those graduating at the end of
this semester.
During that year, the
teaching quality of the associate
instructor will be evaluated by a
three-member team comprised
of one representative from the
associate instructor's college,
one from the school being
taught at, and an official from
the South Dakota Division of
Education.
According to Steve Van
Bockern, Augustana education
professor, "At the end of your
first year of teaching, that three-member
team determines
whether or not you'll get a five
year license.
"A first year teacher will get
reviewed a total of nine times by
the team," he continued. "If
the team declines approval of a
teacher's certification, that
teacher has one year then to
overcome deficiencies and make
plans to improve."
He noted that South Dakota
"is the only one (to enact the
associate instructor program)
that I know of, but there are a
number of states as well as
South Dakota that are requiring
their teachers to take a National
Teacher's Exam."
Amy Schmidt, an Augustana
junior elementary major, gave
her opinion on the new system.
"My feelings are mixed,"
she said. "It's good to be
evaluated because I don't think
it would be fair to the students if
I wasn't qualified, but how can
three people determine your
life?"
Rob Connor, senior elemen-tary
education major, said: "It
puts totally too much pressure
on the first year teacher. I see it
as kind of two-faced. You say
you want education to be im-portant,
but then you don't
show teachers they're important
by how much they're paid."
South Dakota has the lowest
base salary for teachers in the
United States.
As Lisa Wiehl, music educa-tion
major, put it, "The goal is
to get a quality education and
do something that makes
money, but not to teach."
Kris Rylander, elementary
education/special education ma-jor,
said: "Considering the fact
that while we have the lowest
paid teachers, the quality of
education (according to achieve-ment
tests) is one of the highest
in the nation. If students are do-ing
so well, why do we even
need to have an evaluation?"
Melissa Muchow, elementary
education major, said: "I feel
like maybe they should be
checking in on the teachers who
have been there. They're ob-viously
the ones that they're
worried about to be giving us
these tests. ''
Connor, being a senior, will
avoid the evaluation, but he em-pathized
with future graduates.
"I'd feel like half a teacher,"
he said.
While students talked to were
concerned about the general im-plications
of such a program to
teachers in general, they re-mained
confident that most
Augustana graduates would
have little trouble getting cer-tified.
"We have a great education
department; good people that
really care about education,"
Wiehl said.
Van Bockern hopes students
don't view the program as being
totally negative.
"The general advice I would
give to Augustana graduates is
not to be overly concerned
about being under this pro-gram,"
Van Bockern said. "If
they look at it as a way to get
some feedback and moral sup-port
for that first year, it actual-ly
can be viewed as a help and
not a hindrance at all."
"My feelings are mixed. It's good to be
evaluated because I don't think it would
be fair to students if I wasn't qualified,
but how how can three people determine
your life?"
Amy Schmidt
elementary ed. major
regarding new S.D. law
Erich Steinman
staff writer
"Under the existing cir-cicumstances,
it was the proper
thing to do," Joe Dondelinger
said regarding the recent U.S.
strikes against Libya.
Dondelinger, a professor of
international affairs at
Augustana, said talking with
Khadafy would have proved
fruitless.
"You could say that the U.S.
should have negotiated with
Khadafy, but the problem is
that negotiations probably
would not have worked," he
said. "There is very little to
negotiate with. They also would
have tied our hands and put
time in between the acts and
any U.S. action.
"As for economic sanctions,
there was not much more the
U.S. Could do on its own.
"The bombings were an
outraged reaction by a country
that wasn't getting anywhere
and wasn't getting any
assistance."
Dondelinger said the Euro-pean
governments didn't en-dorse
the bombings because of
their proximity to Libya.
"They probably didn't
believe that all other sources of
resolving the conflict had been
exhausted," he said. "They
also had higher economic stakes
due to their imports of Libyan
oil. Europe is also much closer
to Libya and easier for Khadafy
to reach."
Dondelinger said bad blood
has existed between the U.S.
and Libya for quite some time.
"The two incidents are just
the most recent incidents of a
long feud.
"The U.S. sailing across the
`Line of Death' was a form of
provocation. But for Khadafy,
just the fact that the U.S. exists
is a provocation. He views the
U.S. as a western imperialist
Dondelinger/see p. 3

Joe DDoonnddeelliinnggeerr Photo by Carey Boyum
Khadafy provoked
by American ways
Photo by Carey Boyum
E
Photo by Ca
Above: Discarded black phones were common sights on
campus this week as almost every Augustana phone was
replaced by Honeywell push button phones. Br-r-rin Carol Archer, Augustana's switchboard operator, in the began using her new desktop switchboard Monday. The
new switchboard can sit on top of her older wire plug w model (background) and can perform more functions. Ar- n e cher said she already favors the smaller, more compact
system.
New state law affects teachers
Steve Nelson
staff writer
The South Dakota Public
School system has initiated a
program intended to ensure that
only top quality teachers receive
certification.
After July 1st, any teacher
applying for South Dakota cer-tification
must first undergo a
year of "associate instructor"
status. This would not apply to
those graduating at the end of
this semester.
During that year, the
teaching quality of the associate
instructor will be evaluated by a
three-member team comprised
of one representative from the
associate instructor's college,
one from the school being
taught at, and an official from
the South Dakota Division of
Education.
According to Steve Van
Bockern, Augustana education
professor, "At the end of your
first year of teaching, that three-member
team determines
whether or not you'll get a five
year license.
"A first year teacher will get
reviewed a total of nine times by
the team," he continued. "If
the team declines approval of a
teacher's certification, that
teacher has one year then to
overcome deficiencies and make
plans to improve."
He noted that South Dakota
"is the only one (to enact the
associate instructor program)
that I know of, but there are a
number of states as well as
South Dakota that are requiring
their teachers to take a National
Teacher's Exam."
Amy Schmidt, an Augustana
junior elementary major, gave
her opinion on the new system.
"My feelings are mixed,"
she said. "It's good to be
evaluated because I don't think
it would be fair to the students if
I wasn't qualified, but how can
three people determine your
life?"
Rob Connor, senior elemen-tary
education major, said: "It
puts totally too much pressure
on the first year teacher. I see it
as kind of two-faced. You say
you want education to be im-portant,
but then you don't
show teachers they're important
by how much they're paid."
South Dakota has the lowest
base salary for teachers in the
United States.
As Lisa Wiehl, music educa-tion
major, put it, "The goal is
to get a quality education and
do something that makes
money, but not to teach."
Kris Rylander, elementary
education/special education ma-jor,
said: "Considering the fact
that while we have the lowest
paid teachers, the quality of
education (according to achieve-ment
tests) is one of the highest
in the nation. If students are do-ing
so well, why do we even
need to have an evaluation?"
Melissa Muchow, elementary
education major, said: "I feel
like maybe they should be
checking in on the teachers who
have been there. They're ob-viously
the ones that they're
worried about to be giving us
these tests. ''
Connor, being a senior, will
avoid the evaluation, but he em-pathized
with future graduates.
"I'd feel like half a teacher,"
he said.
While students talked to were
concerned about the general im-plications
of such a program to
teachers in general, they re-mained
confident that most
Augustana graduates would
have little trouble getting cer-tified.
"We have a great education
department; good people that
really care about education,"
Wiehl said.
Van Bockern hopes students
don't view the program as being
totally negative.
"The general advice I would
give to Augustana graduates is
not to be overly concerned
about being under this pro-gram,"
Van Bockern said. "If
they look at it as a way to get
some feedback and moral sup-port
for that first year, it actual-ly
can be viewed as a help and
not a hindrance at all."
"My feelings are mixed. It's good to be
evaluated because I don't think it would
be fair to students if I wasn't qualified,
but how how can three people determine
your life?"
Amy Schmidt
elementary ed. major
regarding new S.D. law
Erich Steinman
staff writer
"Under the existing cir-cicumstances,
it was the proper
thing to do," Joe Dondelinger
said regarding the recent U.S.
strikes against Libya.
Dondelinger, a professor of
international affairs at
Augustana, said talking with
Khadafy would have proved
fruitless.
"You could say that the U.S.
should have negotiated with
Khadafy, but the problem is
that negotiations probably
would not have worked," he
said. "There is very little to
negotiate with. They also would
have tied our hands and put
time in between the acts and
any U.S. action.
"As for economic sanctions,
there was not much more the
U.S. Could do on its own.
"The bombings were an
outraged reaction by a country
that wasn't getting anywhere
and wasn't getting any
assistance."
Dondelinger said the Euro-pean
governments didn't en-dorse
the bombings because of
their proximity to Libya.
"They probably didn't
believe that all other sources of
resolving the conflict had been
exhausted," he said. "They
also had higher economic stakes
due to their imports of Libyan
oil. Europe is also much closer
to Libya and easier for Khadafy
to reach."
Dondelinger said bad blood
has existed between the U.S.
and Libya for quite some time.
"The two incidents are just
the most recent incidents of a
long feud.
"The U.S. sailing across the
`Line of Death' was a form of
provocation. But for Khadafy,
just the fact that the U.S. exists
is a provocation. He views the
U.S. as a western imperialist
Dondelinger/see p. 3